How's that working out for you? We're still fighting wars, Guantanamo's still open. He claims the right to assassinate american citizens far from any battlefield without due process. He laughed off serious questions about drug law reform.

We as in the anglos mentioned in the previous post. For someone so keen on history you don't seem to be able to go back to before the republic of texas when the Mexicans allowed the anglos to immigrate into what was then Mexico.

The border interpretation in the first half of the 1800s was a dispute in the sense that Hong Kong's independence from mainland China is disputable. Functionally, Hong Kong is it's own entity, and attempts by mainland China to treat Hong Kong as its territory often prove embarrassing.

It would be like a 280lb weightlifter started to piss on a lawn that belongs to a frail little accountant. Just because the accountant announces, "I hereby declare it acceptable for you to pee on my lawn" doesn't mean that you he has the means to preventing the weightlifter from doing so. All it does is indicate that, for whatever reason, you just don't want to start a confrontation at the moment. If we go back in time, and saw Mexico outlaw immigration, that would only have moved the confrontation earlier, with the same outcome being likely.

Yeah, thanks for your lack of thought bud. As a Texan, I find this quite offensive. I actually like being part of the United States, but I also like living in Texas. What you're pretty much suggesting with this secession thing is forcing people to choose between the two. I also don't feel like having to uproot and move. Things like this is easy for you to say, but it also shows a lack of foresight.

Hah. I'd gladly leave, but you fuckers won't let us. Last time someone tried to divorce the federal government, they got their asses stomped, and textbooks were written to perpetuate the myth that they deserved it.

We deserved to be stopped from lawfully and peacefully forming our own independent union via violent means? Yeah bro, totally. Instead of the strict constitutionalists and every person that has any ties being the ones forced to leave a country founded on... uhh... the constitution and religious morals (albeit regardless of religion and with no true ties to religion, but you can't deny the importance of religion in the birth of our country), why don't all of you guys that support moving to the left just move to Europe?

The whole history textbook changes are completely laughable and overblown. Most textbooks have a liberal bias and the fact that people are throwing a hissy fit is laughable.

I don't have the text book on me, but I have a history text book (which already talks about the Iraq war failure) calls the slave trade the Triangular trade. Are they racist too? Or is it just racist when republicans do it?

Don't worry about Texas, it's been sold. A consortium of Nations made an offer and it was accepted. Texas now belongs to Mexico, China, Venezuela, Lybia and Saudi Arabia. Gonna help lower the national debt.

Like it or not, this is a United States. That union must be preserved. Hell, we even fought a huge war over this issue.

Besides, Texas wouldn't survive one year on her own without federal tax dollars. People would leave in droves once they realized that the same government they were railing against is also the one that provides schooling, Medicare, and other support. She'd decay rapidly to a third world nation and the only people left would be the hardest of the hardcore Texans too proud to jump ship.

Texas is one of the states that pays more federal tax dollars than they receive. Beyond that, they would probably do just fine as a nation. They have abundant natural resources, ports and because of location would have no need to spend lavishly on defense.

Kindly shut the fuck up and go back to your liberal hipster friends and talk about how horrible Bush and the Republicans are and how much better things are under President Obama and the Democrats. Having parties with differing ideologies is what makes our representative democracy as wonderful as it is. Its awfully hateful of you to want to kick somebody out just because their views conflict with yours.

Sincerely, edge_stacks; who is by no means a conservative, yet still hates liberals who think they get to hate on conservatives under the argument of intellectualism and enlightenment vs. anti-intellectualism and what is perceived as ignorance.

We can replace them with Puerto Rico and keep 50 stars. Texas is a deep embarrassment to the American people. There is a constant flow of articles written about things in Texas that make us all stop and say, "WTF?! Is this a joke or is it real?"